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  1. How exactly does cultural change bring about language change?

    Article • Review of Cognitive Linguistics, May 2023, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  2. How does grammar disappear from a language?

    Article • February 2023, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  3. If a grammatical construction is generally becoming rarer, are all speakers using it less?

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, May 2022, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  4. The state-of-the-art in diachronic construction grammar

    Article • May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dirk Noël

  5. The diminishing frequency of a grammatical construction, and how to account for it

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, July 2019, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  6. A usage-based approach to language change implies attention to individual grammars

    Article • Functions of Language, May 2019, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  7. Eenieder wordt geacht de wet te kennen / nul n'est censé ignorer la loi

    Article • November 2018, De Gruyter

    Dirk Noël

  8. Epistemic BE BOUND TO did not develop from deontic BE BOUND TO.

    Article • Lingua, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dirk Noël

  9. Not all research in diachronic construction grammar is equally “usage-based”

    Article • Belgian Journal of Linguistics, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  10. A "big data" approach to recent change in World Englishes

    Article • January 2015, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  11. A corpus-based diachronic investigation of metaphorical containers of sadness in English

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, December 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Yan Ding, Dirk Noël

  12. World Englishes research should take a historical turn

    Article • Journal of English Linguistics, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dirk Noël

  13. How did Dutch VERONDERSTELD WORDEN TE + Infinitive get to express obligation?

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Timothy Colleman, Dirk Noël

  14. The disappearance of Dutch GEZEGD WORDEN TE + Infinitive ('BE SAID TO V')

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, February 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Timothy Colleman, Dirk Noël

  15. Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch

    Article • January 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Timothy Colleman, Dirk Noël

  16. The frequency of modal NEED and lexical NEED TO in four Asian national varieties of English

    Article • January 2012, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  17. Raising: Dutch Between English and German

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, February 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dirk Noël

  18. The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  19. Have English and Dutch BE SAID TO constructions always been more than mere passives?

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, May 2010, John Benjamins

    Dr Timothy Colleman, Dirk Noël

  20. The development of deontic BE SUPPOSED TO in a diachronic constructionist perspective

    Article • English Studies, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dirk Noël

  21. How similar are the developments of the English and Dutch BE SAID TO constructions?

    Article • Languages in Contrast, March 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr Timothy Colleman, Dirk Noël

  22. The evidential BE SAID TO construction is NOT a grammaticalized passive

    Article • Journal of English Linguistics, May 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dirk Noël

  23. Diachronic construction grammar and grammaticalization theory

    Article • Functions of Language, December 2007, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  24. What does BE SEEN TO mean?

    Article • Studia Neophilologica, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dirk Noël

  25. Translations provide empirical evidence for constructional meaning

    Article • Linguistics, January 2003, De Gruyter

    Dirk Noël

  26. Pattern Grammar: A Corpus-Driven Approach to the Lexical Grammar of English (review)

    Article • Language, January 2002, Project Muse

    Dirk Noël

  27. Patterns and Meanings: Using Corpora for English Language Research and Teaching (review)

    Article • Language, January 2002, Project Muse

    Dirk Noël

  28. Have BE SAID TO, BE REPORTED TO, BE BELIEVED TO, ... become auxiliaries?

    Article • Studies in Language, December 2001, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  29. The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston

    Article • Language, December 2000, JSTOR

    Dirk Noël

  30. Information status and noncanonical word order in English By Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward

    Article • Language, January 2000, Project Muse

    Dirk Noël

  31. Zur Strukturierung von einsprachigen und kontrastiven elektronischen Worterbuchern

    Article • Language, September 1999, JSTOR

    Dirk Noël

  32. Sentence Analysis, Valency, and the Concept of Adject

    Article • Language, March 1999, JSTOR

    Dirk Noël

  33. Sentence analysis, valency, and the concept of adject Ed. by Niels Davidsen- Nielsen

    Article • Language, January 1999, Project Muse

    Dirk Noël

  34. Why do constructions like X IS THOUGHT TO V occur much more frequently than those like THINK X TO V?

    Article • Linguistics, January 1998, De Gruyter

    Dirk Noël

  35. Why do writers choose to use a TO-infinitive rather than a THAT-clause after BELIEVE?

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, November 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Dirk Noël

  36. Mid-nineties functional grammar

    Article • October 1997, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  37. Contrastive verb valency and conceptual structures in the verbal lexicon

    Article • Language Sciences, January 1996, Elsevier

    Dirk Noël

  38. Short description of Levin's influential "English Verb Classes and Alternations"

    Article • Functions of Language, January 1995, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  39. Short description of a mid-90s bibliography of work on case and semantic and syntactic roles

    Article • Functions of Language, January 1995, John Benjamins

    Dirk Noël

  40. Had better, ’d better and better: Diachronic and transatlantic variation

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dirk Noël

  41. Is there semantics in all syntax? The case of accusative and infinitive constructions vs. that-clauses

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dirk Noël

  42. Are "argument structure constructions" a result of "grammaticalization"?

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dirk Noël